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President Obama has signed an executive order to ban bias against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees among federal contractors.<p>Transcript<p>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:<p>President Obama signed an executive order today giving new employment protections to gay and transgender people. And this is for …

It was a tale of two rulings -- the best of times and the worst of times for Obamacare in the federal appeals courts.<p>First, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit court of appeals ruled Tuesday against a key component of the law -- the federal subsidies for millions of people who signed up for …

<b>The EU's Common Fisheries Policy failed to achieve its central objectives, the government's review of the balance of power between the UK and the EU has concluded.</b><p>Those submitting evidence to the review "overwhelmingly" felt it had not successfully maintained fish stocks, the government said.<p>This …

Halbig v. Burwell threatens to undo the Obamacare subsidies that millions of people in more than half the country rely on to buy insurance.<p>A three-judge panel on a federal appeals court ruled today that the government cannot give Obamacare subsidies to people who live in states that did not set up …

"A lady had a snake in a bag. When somebody opened the bag, that made the lady die."<p>That's the beginning of a story that Temba Morris often hears about the origins of Ebola. Morris runs a government health clinic in a remote village near Sierra Leone's border with Guinea. According to the story, …

The EU will hit more Russian officials with travel bans and asset freezes by the end of the week.<p>European foreign ministers made the decision at a meeting in Brussels.<p>EU ambassadors will draw up the list of those to be sanctioned on Thursday.<p>German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said: “We …

Jakarta governor and former furniture salesman Joko "Jokowi" Widodo won Indonesia's presidential election, officials said Tuesday, setting him up to be the first person who didn't boast a military or elite background to take the office.<p>His challenger rejected the election hours before the result …

<b>Venezuelan soldiers and officials have begun removing hundreds of families from a half-built 45-storey tower that dominates Caracas,</b><p>Correspondents say that the eviction of 3,000 squatters from the Tower of David is proceeding peacefully.<p>Those moving out are being provided with new homes south of …

Whenever the People's Liberation Army Air Force decides it's time to practice, millions of passengers sit in the terminal or on the taxiway and fume.<p>The point of my book <i>China Airborne</i> was that just about everything involving China's potential, and its challenges, could be seen in its ambition to …

Kuwait has revoked the citizenship of five people, including the owner of a television station that sides with the country's fiery opposition, in a message that dissent in the tiny oil-rich country will not be tolerated.<p>The cabinet announced on Monday, following its weekly meeting, that the …

A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain-smoker who died of lung cancer punitive damages of more than $23bn in her case against the RJ Reynolds Tobacco, the nation's second-largest cigarette maker.<p>The judgment, returned on Friday night in a Pensacola court, was the largest in Florida history …